Michael O'Halloran

Gene Stratton-Porter's novel Michael O'Halloran (1915) concerns a courageous orphan newsboy growing up in a midwestern metropolis. O'Halloran is living life in poverty, but when he meets a crippled orphaned girl, Lily Peaches, the course of his life changes. He shows what he is made of and brings happiness to those around him and making everyone's life sunnier.